William Hill Deploys PGP Whole Disk Encryption to Protect Sensitive Data on Laptops

UK betting and gaming company pursues strategic enterprise data protection

Menlo Pary, CA/ 9th June 2008 - PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced that William Hill Organisation Plc, a leading betting and gaming company based in the United Kingdom, has implemented the PGP® Encryption Platform to protect data on laptops and position itself for future encryption solutions.  William Hill worked with PGP® Silver Partner Gradian Systems, Ltd to implement PGP Universal™ Server and deploy PGP® Whole Disk Encryption to laptops used by  field employees. The solution replaces a point product that slowed laptop performance and provided no strategic benefit.

Founded in 1934, William Hill is a market leader in all major betting channels for wagers on sporting events, online casino games, interactive bingo, and other amusements in the UK with over 14,000 employees, more than 2000 betting offices, and an established international presence in many countries through its online businesses, processing over 1 Million bets per day in its shops, on the phone, and over the Internet. Because it handles client funds, William Hill must protect the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive financial and client information, both in transit and at rest.

William Hill is a Tier-1 PCI vendor that must comply with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements. It also must consider the UK Gambling Commission Remote Technical Standards (RTS), which were developed in line with the ISO 27001 standard.

As William Hill shifted toward a formal enterprise data protection strategy, it found that its existing full-disk encryption product would not support an integrated, centrally manageable security architecture. Users also complained that the encryption product slowed laptop performance. Working with Gradian Systems, William Hill replaced the previous product with PGP Whole Disk Encryption, a component of the PGP Encryption Platform.

Designed to support strategic enterprise data protection, the extensible PGP Encryption Platform allows William Hill to meet its immediate need for a whole disk encryption solution, while positioning itself to deploy more encryption applications in the future and manage all of them from a single instance of the platform.

“We want just one, central management server that can control all encryption applications, rather than lots of dispersed, siloed environments,” said Nick Copley, Information Systems Security Manager at William Hill. “With the PGP Encryption Platform we get whole disk encryption, and can utilize the benefits of the PGP encryption in other information areas in a holistic, single-vendor platform approach.’

Deployment was time consuming, because it revealed a limitation of the previous full-disk encryption product. Setup and configuration of PGP Universal Server and integration with Microsoft ActiveDirectory went quickly and smoothly. However, the lack of remote manageability in the existing full-disk product required William Hill to physically recall every laptop to manually decrypt data and de-install the software before loading the PGP Whole Disk Encryption agent.

Now William Hill anticipates that the company can take advantage of the remote deployment capabilities of PGP software as it adds new laptops. And because PGP Whole Disk Encryption operates automatically in the background, it requires no user training, saving time, money, and resources. William Hill plans to leverage the extensible PGP solution to protect its increasing security and regulatory postures.

About William Hill Organisation, Plc.

Founded in 1934, William Hill is one of the best-known names in the UK betting industry. It is one of the leading providers of fixed odds bookmaking services, offering odds and taking bets on a wide range of sporting and other events, as well as offering Amusement with Prizes machines and Fixed Odds Betting Terminals in licensed betting offices and operating online casino and poker sites, interactive bingo and greyhound stadia. It is a market leader in all major betting channels in the UK with an established international presence through its online businesses.

About Gradian Systems Ltd.

Gradian Systems (www.gradian.co.uk) is one of the United Kingdom’s premier enterprise security solutions companies. It has over  customers through the UK and into Europe with a great customer loyalty and retention rate due to its support and service offerings.

Gradian sells knowledge, technology, and services to solve problems and reduce risks associated with email security, instant messaging, encryption, and governance. It works with global firms focused on mitigating IP, governance, compliance, and data security risks associated with the proliferation of mobile devices, users and applications.

Gradian focuses on improving operational business value and performance by optimizing technology investments. Its mission is to simplify technology and guide customers through the entire engagement lifecycle from provisioning and implementation, to management and the ongoing adoption.

About PGP Corporation

PGP Corporation is a global leader in email and data encryption software for enterprise data protection. Based on a unified key management and policy infrastructure, the PGP® Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of integrated applications for enterprise data security. PGP® platform-enabled applications allow organizations to meet current needs and expand as security requirements evolve for email, laptops, desktops, instant messaging, smartphones, network storage, file transfers, automated processes, and backups.

PGP® solutions are used by more than 80,000 enterprises, businesses, and governments worldwide, including 95 percent of the Fortune® 100, 75 percent of the Fortune® Global 100, 87 percent of the German DAX index, and 51 percent of the U.K. FTSE 100 Index. As a result, PGP Corporation has earned a global reputation for innovative, standards-based, and trusted solutions. PGP solutions help protect confidential information, secure customer data, achieve regulatory and audit compliance, and safeguard companies’ brands and reputations. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.comor +1 650 319 9000.

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